![]() ![]() Their sound system consisted of two columns with six eight-inch speakers each, a Bogen amplifier and four Shure 55s microphones and rented for $95 a night. In the early 1960s Gene began working as a technician for Franklin & Marshall College in nearby Lancaster, Pennsylvania, which gave them opportunities to rent out their sound system. This is where they first started learning about loudspeaker design and how important it is to efficiency. Their first business was a loudspeaker reconing business, Clair Reconing, which fixed loudspeakers. Through high school, college and after they continued to rent it out and add to it. ![]() Money they earned went to buying more equipment. ![]() It consisted of a horn loudspeaker, a Stromberg-Carlson integrated preamplifier, a 35-watt power amp, and a microphone. Their father bought them a small public address system in 1955 which they started to rent out to bands, schools, and churches. History 1960s and 1970s īrothers Roy and Gene Clair grew up in Lititz, Pennsylvania, where their parents owned a grocery store.
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